Upper Engadine Lake Sils Grisons Switzerland – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Upper Engadine Lake Sils Grisons Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/77/777dc1f3f8f7-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Upper Engadine Lake Sils Grisons Switzerland. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Upper Engadine Lake Sils Grisons Switzerland
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Lake Sils lies in the Upper Engadine, a high Alpine valley in the canton of Grisons, where a chain of lakes sits between steep mountain slopes. The view was made as a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the late 1880s that printed photographic images from several lithographic stones, each inked in a different color. Detroit Publishing Co. included this print in its 1905 catalog of Swiss views, which reflects how strongly American buyers and travelers of the period were drawn to Alpine scenery.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 1901. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,692 × 2,738 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4517_Upper_Engadine_Lake_Sil_1890.tif-07162u |
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